Building a Simple English Query Application
An easy way to get started with the English Query designer is to point it at a copy of your database and start a new EQ project with the Project Wizard. Because you are most familiar with the data in your database, exploring this data with the designer shows you the benefits and limitations of English Query better than with the Tutorial databases.
Requirements for an English Query Application
English Query works best on a normalized database. When you use the Project Wizard, it makes assumptions about the relationships between your tables based on the referential integrity constraints between them. For example, a database containing customers and rentals with a one-to-many relationship will assume that ...
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